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By Scott D. Holmberg. 228 pp. Westport, CT, Praeger, 2008. $49.95. ISBN 978-0-313-34717-7.

This book is an autopsy of errors. Drawing on his 20 years as chief of epidemiology in the division for the prevention of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Scott Holmberg dissects "a litter of discarded theories and opinions" about the epidemic to learn how they arose, were propagated, and were eventually corrected. The result is an instructive illustration of how errors afflict science at all levels, and it provides some thoughtful, if overly optimistic, observations on how to reduce their incidence.

Holmberg highlights several types . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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